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R. S. KELSEY.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT TOR VAPOR BURNBRS. l

No. 295,651. f Patented Manz. 25, 1884.

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ROLAND S. KELSEY, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR VAPOR-BURNERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,651, dated March 25, 1884.

Application tiled August 24, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROLAND S. KELsEY, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the `State of 'New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety Attachments fof Vapor-Burners, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description. v

The object of this invention is to render the manipulation of vapor-burners safer and more convenient to the user; and it consists in a novel construction and combination of certain safety devices applied to the burner, as hereinafter fully described, andspecicallyset forth in the claims.

The invention is fully illustrated in the annexed drawings, wherein Figure l is a vertical transverse section of the safety apparatus surrounding the burner. Fig. 2 is a detached plan view of the base of the burner. Fig. 8 is a horizontal section taken on line m m in Fig.. l, and Figxl is a view illustrating the application of the burner to a cook-stove or range.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. y,

A represents a vapor-burner of any ordinary and well-known style and construction,

the fluidor gasoline being conducted to it by a pipe, P, which is connected with a suitable reservoir for the iiuid, as illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

F denotes the usual needle valve, which controls the flow of the iiuid to the burner, and a is the cup generally applied to the burner below the nozzle thereof for the purpose of collecting sufcient iiuid to heat by its combustion the burner, and thereby generate from the iniiowing fluid the gas which escapes through the nozzle n and is ignited.

The burner A, I secure to a base, B, having an upward-projecting nipple, h,into which the stem e of the burner is screwed. The top of the said nipple has an external shoulder, on which is seated the heating-cup c, before described. The base B isformed with a supplemental cup, b, which surrounds the nipple h and superincumbent cup4 a, and isthus adapted to collect such fluid as may overow from the cup a. A discharge-pipe, c, taps the base of the supplemental cup b, and conducts the fluid from said cup to a suitable reser- Voir, R, located in 'any convenient and safe screen serves to prevent the flame in the cup a from communicating with the gas which may arise from the reservoir R through the pipe c, and thus guards against explosions of the said reservoir. In the rabbet r, and upon the edge of the screen s, is seated the annular base of a case, C, which rises above and surrounds the burner A, and is provided at the front with an opening, o, to afford the necessary ac.

cess to the cup c for igniting the iiuid contained therein when it is desired to light the burner. A cap or cone, D, is mounted on top of the case C and provided with the usual vertical flame-conductor, E, directly over the nozzle n, and with a series of perforations around its upper part for the distribution of the flame.

By means of the case C the naine from the cup a is conned around the burner, thus not onlypromoting the necessary heating of the burner for generating the gas, but also rendering the ignition of the iiuid in the cup c much safer to the operator.

Having described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1S v.

1. The combination, kwith the burner and its heating-cup a, of asubjacent supplemental cup, a screen interposed between the two cups, and a discharge-pipe tapping the supplemental cup, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. v

2. In ucombination with thev burner and its cup a, the bse B, provided with the cup of two attestng Witnesses, at Syracuse, in the b, the conduit c, tapping the cup b, and the County ofOuondaga, in the State of New York7 Y screens, interposed between the cup @and oonthis 4th day of August, 1883.

duit c, substantially as set forth, and for the ROLAND S. KELSEY. [L SJ 5 purpose specied. Y Vtnesses:

In testimony Whereofhavehereunto signed F. H. GIBBS,

my name and afxed my seal, in the presence WM. G. RAYMOND'. 

